Key-hole escutcheon



(NoModeL) J. E. FISH.

KEY, HOLE ESGUTGHEON. No; 419,324. Patented Jan. 14,1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. FISH, OF ALBUQUERQUE, TERRITORY OF NEWV MEXICO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HARRY S. FISH, OF BEARDSTOWN, ILLINOIS.

KEY-HOLE ESCUTCHEON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 419,324, dated January 14,1890.

Application filed March 8,4889. $erial No. 302,466. (No model.)

. tory of New Mexico, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Key-Hole Escutcheons, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

This invention has more particularly for its object the production of a luminous escutcheon for key-holes, which will be found very convenient on closet-doors, on chests, and other structures in cellars where there is but little light, uponoutside doors of buildings in poorly-lighted streets, and in various other places. The invention consists in the particular construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a front view of a luminous key-hole escutcheon made of a transparent material, and Fig. 2 a central vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a front view of alike key-hole escutcheon carried by a metal or other ornamental plate.

A indicates a key-hole escutcheon, b its key-hole, and c c in Figs. 1 and 2 holes for screws to secure the escutcheon to its place.

, In Fig. 3 the escutcheon A is represented as inserted in or carried by an ornamental metal or other plate B, which may be secured by screws d to the door or other surface the escutcheon is designed to beapplied to, instead of providing for securing the escutcheon direct,.as in Figs. 1 and 2. It will suffice here, however, mainly to refer to Figs. 1 and 2.

The escutcheon A is here supposed to be made of glass,having its back concaved, as at e in Fig. 2. To the concave back of this glass or transparent escutcheon I first apply a coat of phosphorescent paint f, and after the latter has dried cover it with another coat of cheaper or ordinary and non-luminous paint g, to protect the phosphorescent paint from abrasion and moisture, and which the concave construction of the back of the escutcheon.

also assists in doing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of man ufactu re, akeyhole escutcheon consisting of the escutcheon A, formed of glass, having a concave back and provided with a coat of phosphorescent paint applied to the concave back, and an orna;

mental metal plate B, to which the escutch eon is secured, as set forth.

JOHN E. FISH. Witnesses:

W. CAL BROWN, GEO. H. WONFOR. 

